An easy, very quick summary of the Copenhagen climate treaty
Cartoon courtesy of David Horsey at Hearst Newspapers. Via The Daily Beast....
Cartoon courtesy of David Horsey at Hearst Newspapers. Via The Daily Beast....
The world is close to an ambitious climate change deal; what is missing is the trust needed to reach a legal conclusion. Trust will be built through plain speaking not hints, spin and clever tactics.
I'd like to invite you to join Huffington Post's Hopenhagen Ambassador Contest.
What would constitute a success? What could come out of Copenhagen that would help us avert a climate crisis? President Obama laid down that marker yesterday.
What do we make of the prospects for global action on the climate crisis, given recent events both in the U.S. Congress and in the international conversations leading up to Copenhagen?
Huffington Post is holding a contest to send a citizen journalist to Copenhagen as part of its Hopenhagen platform. This contest will provide a unique...
Remembering how dramatically -- and unexpectedly -- things have changed in the recent past is part of the toolbox for making a deeper, far more necessary climate change possible.
It is estimated that 80 percent of the infrastructure that will exist in India in 2030 has not been built yet. This creates an extraordinary opportunity to build green now rather than retrofitting later.
The Maya in the 8th century had little ability to understand the climate change that was happening to them. Our civilization knows what is happening and even has the ability to prevent catastrophe.
President Obama must do more than merely acknowledge the science; his administration must ensure that a legally binding agreement to reduce carbon emissions is reached in Copenhagen.
If the Obama administration is unwilling or unable to stop the massive environmental destruction of historic mountain ranges and essential drinking wa...
Bill McKibben pulls it all together today in his Washington Post essay explaining what's at stake if President Obama sticks to his decision to let the coming climate meeting in Cophenhagen fail.
As we go forward to Copenhagen, the signs are not good. In the face of the greatest crisis our world has faced for generations, too many powerful people are behaving with shocking irresponsibility.
Heather Graham follows on her hilarious advocacy spot for health care reform with a new climate change ad. Graham squares off with Mackenzie Cro...
I am a natural optimist; as entrepreneurs tend to be. But I fear that the international excitement in the run up to COP15, with supporters and naysaye...
By Raquel Brown, Media Consortium Blogger Last weekend in Singapore, President Barack Obama acknowledged that a comprehensive international climate d...
Instead of lowering our expectations of Copenhagen, we must expect and demand more of negotiators, and push them over that brink. It is imperative that we transcend the pessimism.
As with many poorer countries, Peru is bearing the brunt of a problem it has done little to cause. Its emissions account for only 0.1% of greenhouse gasses, but climate change has affected all aspects of life there.
In a slow-moving industry, Clean Energy Common Sense is an anomaly. Frances Beinecke went from book contract to #4 on the Amazon Non-Fiction Bestsellers list in a little over 60 days.
The institutions that are blocking progress have rallied over the past few months to defend two causes with very little popular support in the United States: rape and slavery. No, really.
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